Yesterday, we celebrated a wonderful Easter service at church. A time of reflection, remembrance, and celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It’s important that we shall not forget what Jesus did for us so that we can have life with Him when He calls us home. We need to remember that Jesus wants to have life with us. The whole reason why He died and rose from the dead is so that we can have life with Him when we are called home by God.
While we sit back and think about the wonderful miraculous event that He did for us, there are some people who love to boast and have brag about themselves. The apostle Paul reminds us that boasting is not the right thing to do. He even speaks about how we need to remove the old “yeast.” Is he talking about baking? No. While he is not talking about baking, he is talking about how we need to remove those who will drive us away from God. I’m not saying that we need to stop talking to people. What I am saying is that there are people who are trying to steer us away from God’s love. It’s not the person, but rather Satan using the person to get to us. This is where the spirit of discernment needs to come in. In other words, we need to have the awareness of when Satan is trying to attack us.
In 1 Corinthians 5:6-8, it says
6. Your boasting about this is terrible. Don’t you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough?
7. Get rid of the old “yeast” by removing this wicked person from among you. Then you will be like a fresh batch of dough made without yeast, which is what you really are. Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for us.[g]
8. So let us celebrate the festival, not with the old bread[h] of wickedness and evil, but with the new bread[i] of sincerity and truth.
Dear Heavenly Father,
I pray that we would have that spirit of discernment throughout our lives. Help us to pay attention to what is around us. Make us aware of the potential attacks from Satan and help us to be strong so that we are able to resist him. Continue to guide us each and every day with Your love and Your grace. Help us to keep pressing forward rather than always looking backward. Help us to take it, receive it, and learn it.
In Jesus name,
Amen